What is Pickup on South Street / Underworld U.S.A. about?

Double Feature: PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, 1953, 20th Century Fox, 80 min. Dir. Samuel Fuller. Pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) lifts a stolen military microfilm from the mistress of a Communist spy. Next thing the lowlife wharf rat knows, he’s the hottest thing in the Big Apple, with the Commies and the feds all trying to kill him. With Jean Peters, Richard Kiley and an Oscar-nominated Thelma Ritter. UNDERWORLD U.S.A., 1961, Sony Repertory, 99 min. Dir. Samuel Fuller. Released from prison, career crook Tolly Devlin (Cliff Robertson) vows revenge on the three hoods who years earlier beat his father to death. To enact his vengeance, Tolly works both sides of the law, a lone wolf playing his own angles in the battle between the mob and the FBI. Introduction by Sam Fuller’s widow, Christa Fuller.

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What is Pickup on South Street / Underworld U.S.A. about?: Double Feature: PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET, 1953, 20th Century Fox, 80 min. Dir. Samuel Fuller. Pickpocket Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) lifts a stolen military microfilm from the mistress of a Communist spy. Next thing the lowlife wharf rat knows, he’s the hottest thing in the Big Apple, with the Commies and the feds all trying to kill him. With Jean Peters, Richard Kiley and an Oscar-nominated Thelma Ritter.

UNDERWORLD U.S.A., 1961, Sony Repertory, 99 min. Dir. Samuel Fuller. Released from prison, career crook Tolly Devlin (Cliff Robertson) vows revenge on the three hoods who years earlier beat his father to death. To enact his vengeance, Tolly works both sides of the law, a lone wolf playing his own angles in the battle between the mob and the FBI. Introduction by Sam Fuller’s widow, Christa Fuller.